Motivational Quotes

Genius

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.

- Beauvoir, Simone De

Best Quotes about Genius

To see things in the seed is genius.

Lao-Tzu

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent -- the power to do the right thing the first time.

Hubbard, Elbert

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

There is one subtle but important difference between genius and stupidity and that is that genius has its limits. You'll see yourself clearest in the eyes of your friends.

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Seneca

Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.

Irving, Washington

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

Hume, David

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The divine egoism hat is genius.

Webb, Mary

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Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

Dahlberg, Edward

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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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Genius is independent of situation.

Churchill, Charles

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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

Edgard Varese

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He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.

Robertson Davies

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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Picasso, Pablo

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To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.

Samuel Butler

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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Lund, Robert S.

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A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.

Adams, Joey Lauren

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Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genius.

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them. Disagree with them. Glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enoughto think they can change the world
Are the ones who do.

Apple Computer

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All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

Weil, Simone

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The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

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The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All of us, you, your children, your neighbors and their children are everyday geniuses, even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered by everyone. That's probably because school hasn't encouraged us to notice what's hidden inside us waiting for the right environment to express itself.

Kline, Peter

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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Carl Sagan

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The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Wilde, Oscar

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The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.

Lewes, George Henry

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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

Lowell, James Russell

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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Oscar Levant

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The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

Child, Lydia M.

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Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

Churchill, Winston

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Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.

Hayden, B. R.

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Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

Fuller, Margaret

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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

Ray, Man

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When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius.

Crashaw, William